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Students from Moran Middle School in Wallingford, CT reflect on their experiences in the K12 Web Archiving Program.
About the Program
If you were a K12 student which websites would you want to save for future generations? What would you want people to look at 50 or even 500 years from now? These questions are central to the K12 Web Archiving Program, a partnership between the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress. Now in its fourth year, with 10 schools in 10 states around the country, this innovative program provides a new perspective on saving history and culture, allowing students to actively participate and make decisions about what "at risk" website content will be saved. The decisions they make help them to develop an awareness of how the Web content they choose will become primary sources for future historians studying our lives. The program teaches critical thinking, collaboration and problem solving - essential life skills that students need today in order to be successful. The program uses Archive-It, a web archiving service, to capture born digital content from the Web to create collection "time capsules." Students decide the type of collections and the specific websites to be captured, attaching a brief description to every one so that people in the future will know why they chose this content. 
Students from CAPE Charter School in Camarillo, California
What teachers and students are saying
"I cannot emphasize how important it was and the "aha" moments that have taken place. The kids are amazed because they simply never thought of what it meant to archive digital content despite the fact that they know the sites change." - Neme Alperstein, NYC Public School 174 Q
"I loved how this project changed my students view of history. They felt empowered to speak for their generation about what was important at their school, in their community, and in the larger American culture. It brought real world learning into the classroom." - Jayne Staniforth Ames Middle School
"This program was AWESOME. I would do it again because I like the idea SO much of people, 20 years in the future, being able to see what I like now. I think that's really cool!" - Student
Learn More
To learn more about Archive-It, please visit our home page at http://www.archive-it.org/ or contact us. To learn more about the Library of Congress NDIIPP initiative, please visit http://www.digitalpreservation.gov. To learn more about the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program please visit http://www.loc.gov/teachers. |
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